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After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] 14 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Just had to deal a few things with my local municipality offices and my email not being a Gmail was a big, big issue and cause of long wondering. If we (we and we, normal peeps outside of Lemmy and all) don't even know what is a non-Google email, or why someone would use one, or the basics of Open Source, no, they won't know about operating systems either. Maybe that could make the change easier, but it won't make people understand why we'd need to make the change. Linux what?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    If you have your own company, you would naturally use the.boss@theBestCompanyEver.lol email for these kinds of purposes. Shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. On the other hand, nobody prohibits you from getting a domain and hosting your own email even if you don’t have a company. Sure, they probably have a long list of gmail users already, but the other people will have all sorts of random email addresses, so I don’t see what’s the problem. There are lots of valid reasons to use some other service besides gmail.

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